Effects of center frequency and rate on the sensitivity to interaural delay in high-frequency click trains

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 125, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 3903-3913

  Majdak, Piotr ^a   Laback, Bernhard ^a  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY FILTERING; BAND PASS; BASILAR MEMBRANES; CENTER FREQUENCY; CLICK TRAINS; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; INTERAURAL TIME DIFFERENCES; PHASE-LOCKING; PULSE RATE; PULSE TRAIN; RATE LIMIT; RATE LIMITING FACTORS; SENSITIVITY DECREASE;

AUDITION; LOCOMOTIVES;

RAILROAD CARS;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BASILAR MEMBRANE; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; FILTER; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE RATE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; EAR; HUMANS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; PSYCHOMETRICS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 67649092288     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3120413     Document Type: Article

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